Tag: translation

Our sister company TTC wetranslate is launching the 6th Translation Challenge at the University of Essex on 16th January 2019. This gives language students the opportunity to work on a real-life translation challenge and get a taste of what life as a translator is like. To make this possible our sister company TTC wetranslate need…

If you’re not familiar with brand name checking, effectively it’s doing due diligence on a new brand, product or company name to ensure it works in other languages. If you launch a new brand and choose a name that doesn’t work in a market you go into later, then it’s an expensive exercise to rebrand…

Translation is not a precise science – there are so many phrases that simply don’t translate literally and it’s so easy to use a word that sounds right, but turns out to be something completely different. There are many colloquial sayings – not only in English that just don’t translate into other languages. If you…

When learning a new language, you might come across some words that look familiar because of a similarity to words in your native tongue. So, these words will be easy to remember, right? Unfortunately, in most cases, the answer will be no. While the spelling might be similar or even identical, the meaning might be…

With the 2018 FIFA World Cup just finished, football has been the subject of conversations worldwide. Every nation has its own expressions and you don’t have to be a passionate football fan to understand them. Some football idioms have become part of everyday language, although not everyone knows that they originated on the football pitch….

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